I'm pretty tired today, and seem to be fighting off a sore throat, which isn't good, since I have a rehearsal tonight and shows the next four. I am, however, really looking forward to rehearsal tonight. I would love to just dump the rest of my life and keep doing this show forever. It's great fun, and I get to work with many nice and talented people. It also has just the right amounts of excercise, silliness, time for a drink of water, no nasty makeup, stress-free hairstyles, and generally comfortable costumes. Plus I get to be outdoors all the time. This theatre experience just doesn't include the few things about drama that I don't like. (Namely: actors with attitude, pancake makeup, smelly dressing rooms, high heels, being indoors all day and all night.) I'll be sorry when it's over.
For tonight though, I get to go and be Hermia again. It's a delight.
My boyfriend was still all lovey all over the place last night. It's somewhat endearing, but I'm still confused by it. And I'm still lacking sleep from the nights we have stayed up so late talking. I'm afraid last night I wasn't terribly responsive, as I watched NYPD Blue and then immediately crawled off to bed. I had to drive him to Albion this morning, as his usual carpool was not available. This meant I had a 2-hour long commute. I'm afraid we are just going to have to get him a car. I just can't DO this up at 6 in the morning and in the car for two hours thing. It's a million miles on my car, it's a lot of gas money, and the traffic will drive me insane.
I usually don't mind doing him favors, but I will have to draw the line here, especially once I move to Eaton Rapids. That would add *another* half-hour to the existing trip. It's just out of the question. I guess I really need to talk to him about this. See, when he took this job in Albion, he was counting on our friend Lamont to drive him there and back daily. Lamont is a great guy, but he is notoriously unreliable. His priorities are always shifting, as is his work schedule. Sometimes he has to go in exceptionally early or stay at work late, which creates childcare problems for boyfriend. Lamont also gets sent on the road for work sometimes, and sometimes decides he is going to stay in a motel in town rather than make the commute back to Lansing. That's what happened last night, which caused me to have to drive down there and pick boyfriend up yesterday, and then drive him down there today. I tried to tell boyfriend before he took the job that he shouldn't count on Lamont like that. At the bare minimum, Lamont goes on vacations out of state (which he is doing next week) and takes frequent days off, and is hitting his first mid-life crisis and considering finding a different job. It doesn't make sense to me to rely on another adult for your sole source of transportation anyway, because unexpected things are bound to happen! Deaths in the family. Sick days. Flat tires. Bah.
Enough ranting. Let's just say I will have to talk to boyfriend, because he needs to scrape together the wherewithal to purchase his own car. He hasn't had one in years, and it's just not a grown-up way to conduct one's life.
Besides, how can he visit his girlfriend in another town without a car?
Speaking of which, it looks like I will need to rent out my spare bedroom in order to have some breathing room financially. I don't know who I can find to be my roommate, but I have to try. I don't want to take a complete stranger, because I have a little kid in the house, and because I would feel a little wierd about that. Problem is, the only candidate I can think of right now that makes a lot of sense is Forest, and that might just push Boyfriend over the edge. Thing is, though, I would feel kind of good about having a male housemate, since I would then not be a single woman living alone. (Read: cautionary tale). I also know Forest is good with Kirstin and likes kids. Best of all, I know him well enough to trust him implicitly, and I don't really trust that many people that much.
This all requires much more thought. I also don't know how much to charge a housemate. Half of my house payment would be exorbitant. Do I make the housemate pay utilities or roll it all in together? Do I share food too? How do I collect the money?
Bah. Why does everything have to be so complicated?
